Neither chromium nor chrome on linux are gpu video decoding capable. You have to use Brave for this ( with limitations)
I guess Webex use Webrtc ( So may be VP8 ) Check the last section of chrome://gpu/ to know what decoding is supported. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872390 Title: 193% CPU usage while using webex with chromium Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: 193% CPU usage while using webex with chromium. The process seems associated with audio. When the process was killed. The voice was muted. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: chromium-browser 80.0.3987.163-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-46.38~18.04.1-generic 5.3.18 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-46-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14 Architecture: amd64 DRM.card0-HDMI-A-1: enabled: enabled dpms: On status: connected edid-base64: AP///////wAEaeIgAQEBASAbAQOAKxh46tr1pFVSnycOUFS/7gCBwAEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBZiFWqlEAHjBGjzMAsuwQAAAeAAAA/QAyTB5TDgAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABWWDIwNwogICAgICAgAAAA/wBIOExNUVMwMTg1ODUKAbQCAxthIwkHB4MBAABnAwwAIACALUOQhALiAA+MCtCKIOAtEBA+lgCgWgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKQ== modes: 1366x768 1920x1080 1920x1080 1280x720 1280x720 1280x720 1024x768 1024x768 1024x768 832x624 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 720x480 720x480 720x480 640x480 640x480 640x480 640x480 640x480 720x400 DRM.card0-eDP-1: enabled: enabled dpms: On status: connected edid-base64: AP///////wAGr+1hAAAAAAAaAQSlIhN4Alklk1hZkykmUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBeDeAtHA4LkBsMKoAWMEQAAAYAAAADwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAA/gBBVU8KICAgICAgICAgAAAA/gBCMTU2SEFOMDYuMSAKANo= modes: 1920x1080 Date: Mon Apr 13 11:01:39 2020 Desktop-Session: 'gnome' '/etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg' '/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop' DetectedPlugins: Env: 'None' 'None' ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-29 (714 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180228) Load-Avg-1min: 6.54 Load-Processes-Running-Percent: 0.3% MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. FX503VD ProcEnviron: ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-46-generic root=UUID=8d5334b6-ef1c-42d3-880c-f5d4c937cba2 ro quiet splash tpm_tis.interrupts=0 acpi_osi=Linux i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 idle=nomwait mds=full,nosmt quiet splash tpm_tis.interrupts=0 acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 idle=nomwait mds=full,nosmt vt.handoff=1 SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-12-20 (114 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 04/29/2019 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: FX503VD.308 dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567 dmi.board.name: FX503VD dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrFX503VD.308:bd04/29/2019:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnFX503VD:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnFX503VD:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0: dmi.product.family: TUF Gaming dmi.product.name: FX503VD dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium-browser: [deleted] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1872390/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp